François Truffaut was a revered member of the French New Wave, but few people know about the filmmaker’s longtime friend and colleague, Helen Scott.
Serge Toubiana, the president of Unifrance and the former director of the Cinematheque Française, aims to change that with his new book.
“The American Friend,” which will be published by Albertine Books in March 2020, tracks the life of Scott in New York and Paris as the writer and translator played a key role in Truffaut’s career.At one point, that included her insistence that Truffaut direct “Bonnie and Clyde” at the height of his popularity.
While Arthur Penn eventually directed the seminal 1967 film, the history of Truffaut’s involvement in the project is retold in this exclusive excerpt — entitled “The Bonnie and Clyde Hypothesis” — from Toubiana’s book, translated into English for IndieWire.Helen Scott was given the film treatment for “Bonnie and Clyde” by Eleanor Wright-Jones,
Read full article